Can software implemented fault-injection be used on real-time systems?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1667 LNCS, Issue , 1999, Pages 209-226

  Cunha, João Carlos ^a   Rela, Mário Zenha ^b   Silva, João Gabriel ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

FAULT INJECTION; FAULT MODEL; PENTIUM PROCESSORS; PROBE EFFECTS; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTED FAULT INJECTIONS; WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 80055080907     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48254-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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